The Democratic congress, facing the lowest public approval ratings on record, has been trying to create the illusion that it is accomplishing something. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices are just not capable of playing it straight.
Thus, they are going to try once again to override the President’s veto of their fraudulent SCHIP bill. This […]
Many single-payer advocates got the vapors when Rudy Giuliani quipped, ”If we ever got Hillarycare in this country, Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.” Well, this Globe & Mail article suggests he was on to something:
More than 150 critically ill Canadians – many with life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages – have been rushed to the United States […]
A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has made public some internal memoranda from Hillary’s 1993 health care task force, and it’s not hard to see why she becomes so annoyed when asked to release that paperwork.
Among the items brought to light by Judicial Watch is a creepy memo that discusses the gathering of personal information on people with the temerity to oppose Her Majesty’s health care initiative:
The database would […]
Jeff Goldsmith is not only one of the most thoughtful observer’s of U.S. health care, he is one of the few policy wonks who eschews crisis mongering. That all-too-rare reluctance to contrive a black cloud for every silver lining informs his latest post at the Health Affairs blog. Countering the general pessimism that greeted the recent CMS report on health spending, Goldsmith predicts “a more […]
Lots of medbloggers wrote about that ER wait time study, and everyone agrees that the basic problem is overcrowding. What I found interesting was the diversity of opinion as to what is causing the overcrowding:
Kevin believes the root problem is lack of PCP access:
Like most of today’s health care problems, a lack of primary care access is […]
I can always use an extra $30 or $40 thousand. So why can’t I put my left kidney up for sale on eBay? Well, as John Stossel explains in this op-ed, Al Gore and his accomplices in Congress made it a federal crime:
In 1984, U.S. Rep. Al Gore sponsored a law making the sale of organs […]
Single-payer zealots Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, et al, have produced a study confirming the blindingly obvious fact that ER wait times are increasing. From 1997 to 2004, the median wait to see an ER doctor went from 22 minutes to 30 minutes. For heart attack victims, the median wait jumped from 8 to 20 minutes.
None of this will come as the […]
The following chart shows political campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry to various politicians. Which presidential candidate has the least credibility when claiming a record of ”taking on” Big Pharma?
[via Pharmalot]
Before the Iowa caucus, Hillary and her surrogates tried to swiftboat Barack Obama using his position on health insurance mandates as a pretext. After Iowa, however, they realized that misrepresenting him on mere issues was not going to be enough to slow Obama’s mementum, so they reverted to their trademark tactic—character assassination. The latest instance of that contemptible strategy is Robert Johnson’s comments in South Carolina:
I […]
Last week, I noted a serious flaw in the Commonwealth Fund study that purports to show how badly the U.S. compares to other nations in “amenable mortality” rates. Well, it’s worse than I thought. Warren Meyer points out the following:
The authors do not look at any patient data … They arbitrarily defined a handful of conditions as “amenable” to care. These […]
